@diodesign Re: 24 Years - Nah!
Well if Terry 6 hadn't posted it, I was about to.
It's a meaningless piece of Tabloid-esque BS and whilst the Daily Fail might be happy to engage in such things because it allows middle-englanders to think "Hah! Justice has been done!" we might at least hope for an attempt at accurate reporting from El Reg.
Or if not, perhaps we could at least introduce an El Reg Standard Unit of Time since there doesn't seem to be one.
I'd suggest the basic unit to be the "pub lunch" (or, say, two hours), then there could be the "Eich" for longer durations (ie a period of ten days) and followed by the "Fiorina" or six years.
As such, the whole gang was convicted with sentences amounting to four Fiorinas...